3. So long as she stood beside him, he was
safe. ’
‘Entertained, he says!’
‘Intrigued, then,’ amended Gerald equably, although truth to tell he was
enjoying the mystery enormously. And, incidentally, check on that unfortunate young
fellow Kimble. Fortescue had not much ability to keep her sister, and a
little while after her mother’s death Ann Veronica met Gwen suddenly on the
staircase coming from her father’s study, shockingly dingy in dusty mourning
and tearful and resentful, and after that Gwen receded from the Morningside
Park world, and not even the begging letters and distressful communications that
her father and aunt received, but only a vague intimation of dreadfulness, a
leakage of incidental comment, flashes of paternal anger at “that blackguard,”
came to Ann Veronica’s ears. Gosse had hidden himself successfully then. "I was just going," said Thames. But kill me rather than commit this outrage. She went on her way now no longer dreaming and appreciative, but disturbed
and unwillingly observant behind her mask of serene contentment. He jumped back, cursing. “The unaccountable thing is that I wouldn’t go home to
please her. Ennison too, always
handsome and debonnair, seemed transported out of his calm self. Tea in
the laboratory was a sort of suffragette reception.
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